EMERGENCY PROFILES

Delivery on a Park Bench

The mother started to get labor pains at 1am. Her husband was traveling so she went to the neighbors to get help and they accompanied to walk to the taxi stand but she could not get make because the pain was too much and they stopped at the football field. The man went to get help, but when he got back she had already delivered – the cord was being cut but the placenta had not delivered and she was bleeding heavily. “Maybe that was my day to die,” she said she was thinking. One of the boda boda drivers passed by and stopped, and he sent a text for help and the fire department came to transport.